“Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”

Letter to Bolingbroke (March 21, 1729); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

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